1Q84 - Book Three (First UK edition - first impression)

Haruki Murakami (Translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel)

ISBN 10: 1846554055 / ISBN 13: 9781846554056

Published by Harvill Secker, London, 2011

About this Item

First impression of the first UK edition, with the full-number-string sequence including the no. "1": 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 on the printer's page. Translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel. ***A near fine copy in black paper-covered boards, with gilt titles to the spine, and a gilt design to the bottom of the front board. No discernible faults. Clean boards. No bumps or creases. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. No foxing. Pages clean. Black front and rear endpapers. ***In a near fine colour-illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £14.99. The dustwrapper also has no discernible faults. No creases, chips or tears. No fading. Dustwrapper bright. ***364 pages plus one-page of acknowledgments at the back of the book. 242mm x 158mm. ***'Book Three of 1Q84 is the final volume of Murakami's magnum opus. At the close of Book Two of 1Q84, Aomame and Tengo found themselves in perilous situations, threatened and confused. As 1Q84 accelerates towards its conclusion, both are pursued by persons and forces they cannot understand. Inspired by George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four," 1Q84 is a magnificent and fully imagined work of fiction - both a thriller and a moving love story. It is a world from which the reader emerges stunned and altered.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***'"1Q84" is a dystopian novel written by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, first published in three volumes in Japan in 2009?10. It covers a fictionalized year of 1984 in parallel with a "real" one. The novel is a story of how a woman named Aomame begins to notice strange changes occurring in the world. She is quickly enraptured in a plot involving Sakigake, a religious cult, her childhood love, Tengo, and embarks on a journey to discover what is "real". Its first printing sold out on the day it was released and sales reached a million within a month. The English-language edition of all three volumes, with the first two volumes translated by Jay Rubin and the third by Philip Gabriel, was released in North America and the United Kingdom on October 25, 2011. (Wiki) ***First impression of the first UK edition, in its original dustwrapper, in near fine, bright and crisp condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: 1Q84 - Book Three (First UK edition - first impression)
• Publisher: Harvill Secker, London
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1846554055
• ISBN 13: 9781846554056
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First UK Edition
• Printing: First Impression
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • First Editions
  • Literature in Translation

About this title

Synopsis

Book Two of 1Q84 ends with Aomame standing on the Metropolitan Expressway with a gun between her lips. She has come tantalisingly close to meeting her beloved Tengo only to have him slip away at the last minute. The followers of the cult leader she assassinated are determined to track her down and she has been living in hiding, completely isolated from the world.

However, Tengo has also resolved to find Aomame. As the two of them uncover more and more about the strange world of 1Q84, and the mysterious Little People, their longing for one another grows. Can they find each other before they themselves are found?

About the Author

In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon.

In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and Men Without Women, Murakami's distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring his place as one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers.